‘Acts of Hatred and Violence: 14-Year-Old White Boy Tries to Drown Black Boy in Massachusetts Pond

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  1. notme

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    I aint your Alexa.
     
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    People shot by police looks to be about the same ratio to population.
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    Of course if you aren't an idiot and try to run or fight, you'll just go on about your day.
     
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    Whether you are Alexa or not is irrelevant... Closer to the truth is you don't want to discuss reality. Because in that reality, in the entire country of the USA, with it's 330,000,000 residents, ~1,000,000 of which are LEOs, in any given year there are in between 6-10 TOTAL unarmed black men shot. TOTAL. Less than 1 incident per month.

    So, can we please stop acting like it's some widespread pandemic or something??
     
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    Your entire point is rather much irrelevant. The point is that racism exists and that the drowning of a black child by a white kid falls in a wider pattern. A part of that pattern is how an other poster proved that unarmed black people get shot at a rate 3 times more often. Emphasis on "a part". I gave more examples like driving while black, how black people predominantly get arrested over drug related charges. etc etc etc.
     
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    Yes, all sorts of crime is running rampant in soft-on-crime Democrat-run cities, so it should come as no surprise that hate crimes are also skyrocketing in the cities were Democrats live in dense clusters, and demand that their police forces be defunded.

    Wherever there are dense populations of Democrat voters, that's where you'll find the most crime, and the most hate crimes.
     
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    Really…WOW…nice work there Mr Holmes.

    So what your saying is that their is more crime in Los Angeles than in Lickspitle Montana ?
     
  8. Steve N

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    If you wanted to run into a convenience store and leave your car running while you’re inside, which locale do you think has the best odds of the car still being there when you got out, LA or Lickspitle, Montana?
     
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    Again………your comparing apples to transmissions…..

    If you want to earn more money, and want better options and opportunities for a job, and want more cultural opportunities, more social opportunities, recreational opportunities, which one would you choose ;)
     
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    Not as often as white men. More often than Asians. Your point?
     
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    In Minnesota where George Floyd was killed, blacks are 10% of the population but are 75% of the known murderers. Probably more than 75% if the unknown were included.
     
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    Thats because they commit violent crimes "at a rate 3 times more often". Unarmed MEN get shot at a rate probably 20 or 30 times more often than women. Do you blame that on misogyny?
     
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    Where do they get the idea these kids were trying to drown this kid? As opposed to torment and scare the shiite out of him.
     
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    Any locale in the US has that possibility. Japan is a different matter where you can literally leave your $2000 laptop at the table while you go to the restroom. But here, cars have been stolen in suburbia, urban areas, and even rural areas while the person leaves the car running while they go into the convenience store. Even in small towns, rural areas where crime, including murder, can make its ugly appearance. Moscow, Idaho ring a bell? Or recently, you make want to look at a small town in illinois where four family members were killed and it was not a random act, according to police.
     
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    Does a large pond ring a bell. The affadivits is one item where the statements from witnesses described the event.
     
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    ???? Size of the pond is irrelevant to my point. No doubt, thats why you want to go there.
     
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    whataboutism
     
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    Why do you keep trying to talk about a group? We are talking about an individual crime, one person against another in the OP.

    If we are both white and I hate you and kill you is it any less a crime than if we are of different race? I don't think this boy was going around knocking out unsuspecting black people he and his other kid had some disagreement going.
     
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    nope, both are murder, like I said though, hate crime laws were meant for smaller crimes down with racist intent, all a hate crime does is add 5 years to the sentence

    adding 5 years to a murder sentence is just symbolic, not really what the law was designed for

    there is a huge difference between someone spray-painting normal graffiti on a house
    and someone spray-painting "get out n-word" in red spray paint for example to scare all black people in their neighborhood
     
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    No it is not. The pond, whatever the size, is totally relevant to the issue at hand. This was attempted murder, based on the public reports. This was not too boys trying to outdo each other becayuse of a girl they both like sort of a thing.

    I am not sure if this meets hate crime criteria in the state in which this happened. But I also think there was a beef of some sort, and teenage hormones also got in the way. Does not excuse the perp from doing what he did, but it may explain why he did it.
     
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    ARE YOU KIDDING. People charged with MURDER ONE have hate crime attached to it. The crimes are about HATE.

    Again

    If we are both white and I HATE you and kill you is it any less a crime than if we are of different race? Should I have 5 more years attached because I hated you?
     
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    Oooook, care to identify the relevance?
     
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    Was that a yes or no answer to the question?
     
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    I wasn't interested but now I am.
    What relevance does the size of the pond have?
    Is it a hate crime if you hate and kill someone with the same race as you?
    Now I need to know these answers.
     
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    Point stands that the whole picture of the US got racism institutionalized, from killing black people who are unarmed a hell of a lot more, as well as just pulling them over while driving (while white people got more infractions with the law when they get pulled over), as well as black people get arrested for drugs a lot more often (while white people are just as busy with drugs). Your silly question doesn't change that. While the pattern of the police goes hand in hand with what happened in the OP,... where a black kid get almost killed for no reason by a white kid while some other white kid cracks some jokes about it.
     

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